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Voices on Addiction: How to Stay

  • Jennifer L. Hollis
  • August 12, 2019
Drinking is the opposite of staying.
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Mary Karr, Queen of the Memoir, on that “Low-Rent Form”

  • Charley Locke
  • September 18, 2015
I stopped putting things in quotation marks because I really wanted the reader to continue to understand or believe or think that he or she was in my head. Listen…
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The Rumpus Interview with Jennifer Michael Hecht

  • Alex Dueben
  • April 8, 2015
Poet, historian, and philosopher Jennifer Michael Hecht talks about Thomas Aquinas, Robin Williams, and her most recent book, Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It.
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ROCK OUT WITH YOUR BOOK OUT #1: JOLIE HOLLAND

  • Dani Burlison
  • March 19, 2013
I once read an interview with Jolie Holland in which she mentioned how her songs come through her from some other world.
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The Rumpus Interview with John Wesley Harding

  • Katy Henriksen
  • November 10, 2011
Well as a singer-songwriter you kind of have a right to hijack bands. I’ve never really had my own band for too long.
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